153,155 AND 157, WHITELADIES ROAD
153,155 AND 157, WHITELADIES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291124
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 153,155 AND 157, WHITELADIES ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 153,155 AND 157, WHITELADIES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291124
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 153,155 AND 157, WHITELADIES ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 153,155 AND 157, WHITELADIES ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 153,155 AND 157, WHITELADIES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57546 74520
Details
BRISTOL
ST5774 WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton 901-1/34/1128 (East side) 04/03/77 Nos.153, 155 AND 157
GV II
Terrace of 3 houses. 1856. By WB Gingell. Limestone ashlar, ashlar and brick lateral and party wall stacks and a concrete tiled hipped roof. Italianate style. 3 storeys, basement and attic; 9-window range. A large symmetrical front has matching 2-window gabled wings with overhanging eaves and square outer towers, and single-window range setback end blocks. Banded pilasters to the corners, quoins on the second floor, and bands separating the floors. Right-hand ground floor obscured by C20 shop front; left-hand open semicircular-arched porch to 2-panel door. The wings have semicircular-arched keyed windows to plate-glass sashes, Venetian on the first-floor to the inside, and paired above; the gables have small paired windows beneath a small oculus, and the towers have triple windows with tall keys in a recessed panel. The middle has 3 semicircular arches to a ground-floor verandah with cast-iron railings, square piers to the basement and verandah, with circles in the spandrels; steps and balustrades up to a left-hand doorway, with a semicircular-arched doorway and French windows. First-floor segmental-arched projecting lintels to flat-headed French windows, second-floor windows with bracketed cills and cornices, and brackets to stone eaves. The attic has 3 large dormers with wide segmental pediments. Lateral stacks with flared caps. INTERIOR: rear dogleg stairs with cast-iron balusters and wreathed rails, and rear stair lights with stained glass; egg-and-dart cornices, and 6-panel doors; No.157 has a late C19 ballroom to the rear with a panelled fireplace and overmantel, frieze and cornice and balustrade to the entrance steps. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 273).
Listing NGR: ST5754674520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380881
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 273
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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